30 Innovative Video Products from the InfoComm 2016 Show Floor

Biamp introduced TesiraLUX, an encoder/decoder pair that introduces low-latency 4K networked video distribution to its Tesira platform. The siblings, as they’re called, transport both audio and video signals over a single network using AVB (audio video bridging). The TesiraLUX product line will initially include an AVB video encoder (TesiraLUX IDH-1) and an AVB video decoder (TesiraLUX OH-1). The encoder features one HDMI port, one DisplayPort port, and two mic/line-level analog inputs. The decoder includes one HDMI port and two line-level analog outputs. TesiraLUX supports the latest advancements in video formats, including 4096x2160 at 60-Hz, high dynamic range (HDR) and the Rec. 2020 color space. It can accept video at up to 16-bit color depth with 4:4:4 chroma subsampling, as well as supports 8 channels of embedded PCM audio, which can be broken out to be routed and processed independently.

Stewart Filmscreen is not only one of the manufacturers showing 16K screens at InfoComm this week, but it took attendees by surprise when it announced that all of its top-selling screens for commercial venues can accommodate resolutions up to 16K, and have been able to since 1947.

“When 16K projectors are available, Stewart Filmscreen will be waiting,” the company asserts. So if your company is already using Stewart Filmscreen when 8K or 16K projectors come out, you won’t need to upgrade your projection screens.

Expanding the capabilities of its Span system, the Calgary, Alberta-based manufacturer showed a mobile version of the collaboration system at InfoComm. The Span incorporates a 1080p projector and a customer-supplied PC with a package that is capable of throwing images over six-feet wide. The projector features a solid-state light engine for 25,000 hours of lamp life, HDMI and USB ports, and it allows users to share and create ideas from their smart devices.

Answering customers’ demands for signage integrated as part of its IPTV video distribution system, Exterity’s ArtioSign, an integrated digital signage set-top box solution, was showcased at InfoComm 2016. When integrated with Exterity’s IP video solutions, ArtioSign enables live TV and video to be incorporated into digital signage screens.

“There’s been an increasing demand from our customers to provide signage integrated as part of the IPTV video distribution system so we’ve added ArtioSign to our portfolio, which allows us to take one of our receiver devices and allows it to be essentially flipped between pure IPTV video distribution and signage mode where the stream real estate can be used for a variety of purposes over and above just the delivery of video,” says Colin Farquhar, CEO of Exterity.

Absen Inc. showcased its N Series permanent indoor displays, boasting 1,100 nits of brightness. The displays are only 2” thick and are used for a variety of purposes from control rooms to broadcasting. The N Series cabinet design allows for easy installation and creative application, and comes equipped with wireless device monitoring with live performance and failure detection.

ATX Networks’ showcased its complete end-to-end IPTV solutions at InfoComm 2016 and was sure to show off its new VidiPlay IPTV system, a turnkey solution for enhancing a broadcaster’s channel monitoring and communications with secure, high quality video distribution throughout their headquarters and remote monitoring facilities.

Entirely IP and digital media-based, VidiPlay grants broadcasters and media agencies the ability to securely incorporate live TV programs, video broadcast monitoring and network DVR functionality throughout their broadcast centers.

There plenty of video management solutions showcased at InfoComm this year, and Sonic Foundry’s Mediasite offers even more than just simple video control. The Mediasite Video Platform allows users to create, publish, search and manage all video.

Regardless of its source, Mediasite ensures all video has a secure, central home. It streamlines the most time-consuming steps of uploading, encoding and organizing every video asset. Furthermore, Mediasite offers an editing toolkit that allows for easy editing and polishing of video content. Other features include SmartSearch, which automatically makes all videos searchable as text, so users can find keywords anywhere, as well as video analytics and security for protection over user’s video libraries and all content creation, management and editing functions.

KanexPro unveiled its new Flexible Modular Matrix Switcher at this year’s show, allowing system designers to create a flexible matrix system based on project requirements from 11x1 to 31x1 input and output combinations with zero latency thru zero-transfer switching.

The FLEX-MMX Series Switchers are ideal for applications that require true 4K and brings both versatility and value to integrators. No additional programming is needed, users simply just connect and switch.

With Power over Cable (PoC) supported by HDBaseT input and outputs cards with 4K/60 up to 230 feet, the FLEX-MMX is an ideal tool for hospitality, command and control centers and large AV conference rooms that require up-to-the-second viewing of critical information and high-resolution graphics.

Demonstrating its HD video and audio solutions with eye-catching dummy staging, Marshall Electronics showed off its new M-LYNX-702W Dual 7” Rackmount Monitor in unique fashion. Staging a broadcast, the M-LYNX-702W displayed a high resolution of 1280 x 800 with no-compromise input selections for each screen. The monitor features HDMI, 3GSDI with loop-through (auto selects HDSDI/SDI) digital inputs, along with component and composite with loop-through analog inputs.

Special features include Waveform/Vector, peaking filter, selectable markers, 1:1 pixel mapping, over scan and H/V delay modes, P-P, and individual color viewing.

Coupled with the VSW-2200 Seamless Switcher, users can seamlessly switch between up to 4 HD-SDI video feeds for broadcast, teleconferences and live-streamed events.

Attendees couldn’t miss Blackmagic Design’s all black truck parked in front of its booth at InfoComm 2016, but it’s what was inside of the truck that was most impressive. Displaying Blackmagic Design’s various switchers and video software, new and old, perhaps most exciting was the company’s new DaVinci Resolve 12.5 Studio.

This software installs DaVinci Resolve 12.5 Studio professional editing and color correction software. With over 1,000 enhancements and 250 new features, DaVinci Resolve 12.5 Studio features everything found in the free version, plus adds multiple GPU support, 4K mastering, HDR grading, motion blur effects, noise reduction, 3D, multi-user tools and more.

With DaVinci Resolve 12.5 Studio, users have access to an affordable editing solution with high quality features and capabilities. “Some are calling this technology disruptive, but I call it empowering,” says Bob Caniglia, senior regional manager for Eastern North America, Blackmagic Design.

“This is a great release for us,” said Atlona’s Garth Lobban, during InfoComm 2016. The director of marketing wasn’t simply talking about the three new half-rack models from Atlona’s new OmniStream AV over IP product family that it introduced during the show in Las Vegas. His comment on day 3 of the event was more of a reflection on how integrators visiting Atlona’s booth had reacted to the new offers.

These products are specially designed to be robust and scalable for the Pro AV market and create the ability to truly stream “any to any, many to many” over a standard Gigibit network.

Atlona’s OmniStream products are expected to ship in September 2016, according to Lobban.

For those who work in rental and staging Da-Lite’s Fast-Fold folding screen is so widely used and embraced that Fast-Fold has become “almost the Kleenex of the industry,” says Da-Lite senior marketing manager Melissa Rone.

“People use them every day. They’re workhorses. They get beat up. They get abused. They withstand the heavy use.”

However, Da-Lite decided it was time to give the beloved Fast-Fold a refresh. After all, a product that is as heavily used as it is and has been around for as long as it has is bound to generate some feedback. “We took a holistic approach, talked to business owners, product managers, set engineers, technicians who set up and take it down, end users who hire AV companies, owners, buyers,” Rone says. “And we just listened.”

The thing about laser projection is that it becomes a good ROI decision for customers more quickly as the prices go down, and Digital Projection is trying to make those decisions easier for more customers by unveiling two new budget-oriented E-Vision laser projectors (adding to the E-Vision Laser 8500) at InfoComm 2016—the E-Vision Laser 6500 and 7500.

“These projectors do exactly what a laser projector should do,” says VP of marketing Michael Bridwell.

The E-Vision Laser 6500 delivers 6,500 lumens, image contrast of 5,000:1 and advanced capabilities such as DICOM simulation mode. The E-Vision Laser 7500 delivers 7,500 lumens, geometry correction and edge blending, Lens Memory presets, and advanced capabilities such as DICOM simulation mode.

The E-Vision Laser 6500 is already shipping in North America, and the E-Vision Laser 7500 ships Q3, 2016.

Matrox Graphics announced its new Matrox Mura IPX 4K IP decode and display card just prior to InfoComm 2016. The latest addition to the Mura IPX Series family line, the new card offers H.264 decoding of one 8K, up to two 4Kp60, four 4Kp30, eight 1080p60, sixteen 1080p30 or many more SD streams. Additionally, four DisplayPort outputs make it a cost-effective multiviewer for control rooms and AV presentation systems in security, corporate, defense, aerospace, utilities, government, medical and education environments.

Planar is calling its Clarity Matrix MX55HDX (shown), which it unveiled at InfoComm 2016, the LCD video wall display with the industry’s smallest tiled bezel. When tiled together to create a video wall, the 55-inch Clarity Matrix MX55HDX provides a tiled bezel width of 1.6 millimeters

It also added the Clarity Matrix LX46HDU-3D, an LCD video wall solution for customers seeking a large format stereoscopic display for professional 3D visualization applications, particularly universities, design firms, manufacturers and government customers seeking a large-format stereo 3D visualization display. Customers can utilize passive glasses to analyze 3D models and data or they can use the video wall as a collaborative work space for standard 2D content.

In the first InfoComm since Leyard acquired Planar, the brands were quick to flex their expanded product development. Leyard TWA Series of fine-pitch LED video walls made its debut at InfoComm 2016, touting low power consumption and outstanding video quality. Models are available now with 1.2 millimeter pixel pitch and later this year in 1.8.

Meanwhile, Leyard and Planar may have grabbed more eyeballs than any other exhibitor at InfoComm 2016 by displaying the TWA Series in an 8K installation of 64 individual Leyard TWA Series 1.2 millimeter pixel pitch displays. Countless InfoComm attendees posed for photos in front of the larger-than-life screen, which often displayed beach scenes—no doubt sending the realistic pics back home to make loved ones jealous.

Sony’s newest lens option is the VPLL-3003 ultra-short throw lens, the first interchangeable ultra-short throw lens for 3LCD projectors. This lens offers sharp focus and minimized picture distortion due to a large mirror system, and easy adjustment of lens shift and focus via remote control. Its 0.33:1 throw ratio allows it to be used in tight spaces with no clearance from the wall. The lens can project an 80- to 300-inch diagonal image with minimal throw distance (39 inches throw distance for 140-inch diagonal image), making it ideal for small meeting rooms, as digital signage or use in museums.

Front and center at SunBrite’s InfoComm 2016 booth was its new 49-inch Pro Series ruggedized outdoor display model. With this addition, the robust Pro Series now offers 13 different displays ranging from 32 to 84 inches. The SB-4917HD, among the first new SunBriteTV products since the outdoor AV manufacturer was acquired by SnapAV in late 2015, offers an identical price point but significant upgrades over the 47” Pro Series display it replaces, including a thinner bezel and a larger media bay featuring self-powered media ports. It’s available for $4,295 MSRP.

Crestron Studio software has been redesigned from the ground up to power, speed, and simplify AV system design in ways that were not possible before. Whether you’re a seasoned Crestron programmer or programming a Crestron system for the first time, Crestron Studio makes it easy to create intuitive graphical user interfaces without having to write a single line of code.

All you have to do is draw your signal flow diagram like you normally do. All the functionality, the GUI, and the hooks to Crestron Fusion are automatically generated behind the scenes and Crestron validates all the code. Crestron Studio also takes advantage of Smart Graphics to enable simple gestures navigation, swiping, and kinetic effects such as knobs, sliders, gauges, and scrolling lists, common in smartphones and tablets. Then save the project and apply it to every similar room to save time.

The AMX NMX-ENC-N2151 4K Encoder and NMX-DEC-N2251 4K Decoder provide users with a versatile solution for distributing AV over a converged network at resolutions up to 4096×2160. JPEG2000 compression allows Ultra HD media to be switched and distributed over standard Gigabit Ethernet networks. Ultra HD signals from the NMX-ENC-N2151 encoder are provided simultaneously as a JPEG2000-compressed 200-600 Mbps stream through the RJ45 connector or small-form-pluggable (SFP+) port (10Gb), and an uncompressed stream through the SFP+ connector (via a fiber module). Any source can be sent to any number of displays by routing through layer-3 switches. System scalability is limited only by uplink and stacking connector bandwidths.

RovoCam is AJA’s first compact block camera for industrial, corporate, security, ProAV and broadcast applications. It is also the first and only HDBaseT camera of its kind. RovoCam’s HDBaseT interface supports control of 4K/UltraHD video, power, stereo audio and RS-232 over a single Cat 5e/6 cable. It offers PTZ in 1080 and can interface with a number of manufacturers. Complianty with Sony VISCA Control Protocol, software is included with the solution and presets can be saved in the camera for ease of use.

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Vaddio RoboSHOT 20 UHD

The Vaddio RoboSHOT 20 UHD Camera is an Ultra HD (4K) PTZ camera with pristine color reproduction, low light performance and video performance. With enterprise class features including IP streaming and network control via web interface, this camera is designed for use in UHD or HD environments such as higher education, corporate broadcast and houses of worship. The camera optics feature a 12x optical zoom lens with seamless transition to 1.67x digital zoom, for a total zoom range of 20x. The camera uses a 1/2.3-type, high-speed, low noise, back illuminated CMOS sensor with 9.03 total megapixels, producing native 2160p/30 (3840 x 2160) video images without scaling. With a 74-degree wide horizontal field-of-view and built in CCU with browser configuration, the RoboSHOT 20 UHD provides great flexibility in a variety of applications including video production, live events, lecture capture, or conferencing.

Aeson boasted a giant indoor LED video screen with cabinets that feature a 16:9 aspect ratio and full front and rear access (shown). Unique to Aeson, the entire screen features a 16:9 aspect ratio.

Aeson LED Display Technologies works exclusively with integrators and consultants in providing solutions for customer’s LED needs and specializes in the House of Worship, corporate, education, stadium and arena, restaurant, club, and cruise ship markets.

Known as a purely audio company, ClearOne is moving into the video space with its new Spontania collaboration cloud software. By implementing Spontania into a user’s data center, up to thousands of users can collaborate in real-time and share video, voice and data on any device.

Spontania is also interoperable with existing IT and communication environments including PSTN/IPBX, directory authentication and scheduling tools.

Exxact’s video wall controllers allow users to capture, scale and manage on-sreen content across multiple displays. With comprehensive software installed, Exxact video wall controllers aim to help users easily manage content and information across multiple screens.

Key features of Exxact’s video controllers are its video source switching/compositing, remote content management using an IP address, and support of up to 54 inputs/outputs and multiple management desktop. Exxact’s video wall controllers are most often used in the government and education markets.

wePresent showcased its entire product line of wireless presentation products at this year’s show. Aimed at helping integrators deliver the solutions end users in the education market are looking for, wePresent demonstrated its WiPG-2000 wireless presentation model at its InfoComm booth.

“Our flagship model is our WiPG-2000 and that basically has all the bells and whistles of our wireless presentation system,” says Eva Canon, director of marketing for wePresent. “People can come in with laptops, Macs, iPads, or android devices and connect to a display or a projector and wirelessly present. They don’t need cables and they don’t need to worry about resolution.”

The WiPG-2000 integrates with any plug and play touchscreen through a USB connection, making installation simple and fast. The WiPG-2000 also features an onboard video streamer, freeing up all resources on an end-user’s device.

With the CMND display management platform, users can manage their full suite of displays from a central location. CMND also allows users to update, create and push out content all on one platform with CMND & Create. CMND & Control allows users to manage settings, schedule firmware updates and more.

CMND also helps users engage their customers in real time by distributing content immediately based on customers’ habits.

RGB Spectrum has developed a reputation for engineering mission critical matrixes and other switching solutions that are used in markets ranging from simulation to medical and military. Recognizing the evolution of the market the company has expanded its product line with the introduction of its IP-based Zio system. The digital platform incorporates audio, video and control provisions, and it offers user support tools such as drag-and-drop source assignment and firmware updates. The company says Zio can be used for installs in the security, control room, corporate and other intensive applications.

The Epson BrightLink Pro turns any flat surface into an interactive display. The projector-based technology, which is available now, features USB connectivity and camera connections that makes it ideal for use in corporate and higher education settings as well as in corporate training environments.

All SiliconCore LED displays measure between 1500 and 2000 nits of brightness, about double many other manufacturers’ brightest offerings. They also use less power to generate that brightness, which leads to less stress and less degradation of the image on the screen, says Nicos Syrimis, senior VP of business development. They spec their displays to last 100,000 hours but they typically last longer, he says. Among the new offerings are Camellia, a 0.95mm-pixel pitch 4K display that measures 12 feet by 6.5 feet and has a 2000-nit maximum brightness, and the Tulip 3.9mm-pixel pitch outdoor display, which has a 4500-nit maximum brightness and is ideal for viewing at about 25-30 feet.